Guys, I know I might sound dickish, but I have to ask. Bethesda has a poor track record with the PS3, so why did you get the game for it? I know not everybody has an Xbox/PC that can run it, but besides that I see no point.

I am sorry to hear your problems.

Well I haven't had any problems yet except for my system freezing but my brother and I had been playing over five hours or so. How do we keep our save file small? I mean is there a way like shutting off autosave will keep the file small or am I destined to hit the later levels of the game and find myself in this boat?

As for why I got the game if Bethesda has such a reputation for piss poor quality my answer is this: my baby brother got it for me for my birthday and I sure as hell am not going to return his gift. Even if it sucks I will lie to him and sing its praises because I know he thought long before buying that game. I love rpgs so that is why he bought it for me when neither of us have ever played a single Elder Scroll game.

Got skyrim on ps3 a few days ago and have been playing for a good solid few hours, and it seems fine so far. In the first day it froze once or twice during gameplay, once during a manual save, one time when it failed to load when I entered a building. Apart from that first day, its been completely perfect, and I've played it so much more than I did on that first day. There's the odd bit of lag for a split second sometimes when I come across an enemy or a new place or something but I think that's only natural especially in a game this big.

With my experience of the game I'm of the mind that Bethesda should sue IGN, is it something to do with how memory is stored on the PS3 and the RAM is separated? Either way I really do never get a frame drop and in those 190 hours it's froze for me twice on loading screens

Well I'm still playing on v1.0 on PS3 and my Nord file was at 15mb. Everything that was laggy or whatever (all known problems occured) had a temporary solution: turning off the PS3, and deleting all excess save files. I usually have a surplus of save files (old habit from FF games) so that I can "go back" to selected parts of the story, but clearly this isn't a wise choice with Skyrim, with the framerate issues.

I don't get to play 4-5 hours straight anyway since I'm so *bleep*ing busy with work, so when it crashes or takes hours to save I just go to bed.